Curious and Curiouser

3: Dementors

So no Hermione in this chapter, sorry guys.

Please comment, I would love to know what you guys think of the story so far.

Just letting you know this is I going to be a long story, I currently have the first drafts done for 2 more chapters but I see this story going on for much longer than that, you can probably tell the plot is moving pretty slow right now, just trying to get all of the characters into the picture.

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"Ron," Harry said, surprised as he walked into the auror office the next morning.

He usually beat Ron to work every day.

"Harry," Ron greeted him with a nod and a yawn from the reception desk, Harry looked closer

"Merlin Ron, did you get any sleep? You must've left around 11 last night, what happened? Why are you out here instead of in your office?"

"De-de-dementors." Ron said yawning again.

"What?!" Harry asked sharply, he had had quite a few run-ins with dementors himself and would not be sorry if he lived the rest of his life never seeing or feeling one again.

"They attacked a muggle town in Essex, I think Blaise said. Anyways I had just gotten in bed when I got Blaise's message, nee-needed someone to come into the office, and well last night was my shift anyway." Ron continued, yawning again.

"Blimey...who went last night then? Is everyone alright?" Harry asked, moving to write out an order for some coffee, clearly, Ron needed it.

"Blaise said Kingsley took Stokes and Lopez down when the reports came in, and that he went down with a group of MLE (Magical Law Enforcement) officers as soon as he wrote to me," Ron said as Harry tapped the coffee order with his wand and it folded itself up into a paper airplane and zoomed away.

"So Blaise is alright then?" Harry asked Harry, held nothing against his former Hogwarts classmate, Zabini had been one of the few who hadn't gotten caught up in the war, as luck would have it they had both finished in the top of their auror training class and as a result, were often assigned tasks together. While they weren't officially partners yet Harry was sure that Kingsley sought to make the pair permanent. They really did work well together. Ron on the other hand had chosen the tactician route over the field agent one. His incredible skills at chess made him the best possible person to organize missions, rescues, and extractions, in the 3 years he had been with the department he had helped to cut the casualty rates nearly in half. Coming up with ingenious solutions to all sorts of problems the aurors faced.

"Yeah" Ron answered, "at least I think so, he sent a Patronus in four hours ago saying they had rounded up all of the dementors and asking if I could stay here until they managed to get back."

"They got all the dementors four hours ago? Did anything else happen while you've been here? Any new reports come in?" Harry asked curiously, gesturing so that Ron would follow him into his cubicle.

"That's what Blaise said," Ron replied as he sunk gratefully onto the tiny couch that Hermione had helped the two of them cram into the cubicle. "And no, no new messages, just an update from the inquisitors about the Olton case but I took care of that."

"That's odd--" Harry began but was cut off by a tall, lanky wizard at the entrance of the cubicle who looked to be about 16 holding out two small black coffees.

Harry paid the wizard and turned back to Ron, and continued, "If they got all of the dementors four hours ago they should be back by now, MLE would have obliviators on staff to handle the muggles, they wouldn't need aurors for that."